Category: All-Time Favorites

As some of our readers know, I am a Contributor to Travel-Wise.com. A lot of my travels end up on this wonderful resource which I highly recommend your visiting: www.Travel-Wise.com. It’s headquartered in Canada although its audience is bigger in the U.S. and the U.K. […]

All hail Super Bowl Sunday, played in controversy this year, in this age of controversy. But one thing is sure, there’s very little of that here. Because through the wonders of Google Analytics, I can assure you that the following 5 recipes are consistently at […]

Pictured above… Northern Fried Chicken with a Watermelon and Arugula Salad There are times when I just don’t want to post a recipe because it’s just too good. It’s not that I am trying to keep it from you. It is just that once a […]

If there’s any worst night to go out all year, it is surely Valentine’s Day…although I think New Year’s Eve is a very close second. I was pretty well sure Valentine’s Day was an invention of Hallmark Cards but that’s not at all true. It’s […]

If you’ve spent any time reading this blog, you know I am a huge fan of Trader Joe’s and not just because there happens to be one just three blocks from our place in the city. I will suffer the crowds for the convenience and […]

Serve it straight from the pot on Night One… Or keep it refrigerated overnight and pop it in the oven for 20 minutes on Day 2. On more than one winter night at our house, pasta dishes have great appeal. Hearty and comforting, they’re hard […]

I am a huge fan of Ina Garten or as a friend of mine once said “What’s not to like?” Ina makes great food accessible to even the most amateur cook. This may be because Ina herself is a completely self-taught home cook. She […]

The incomparable Joanne Chang When we published Joanne Chang’s Sticky Bun recipe, winner of “Throwndown” with Bobby Flay, we heard from no less than Bobby himself. “Joanne Chang’s sticky buns are by far the best sticky buns I have ever eaten..hands down! If you […]

I just wish this looked as good as it tastes You have just landed on the most popular post ever on Chewing the Fat. It’s been read 19,245 times and counting. It is so popular in our house, that I was promptly dismissed when I […]

It’s not exactly freezing but it the time of year when I start thinking about meals that, for lack of a better word are ‘manly’. I would happily make this recipe a Steak and Kidney Pie although that would quickly mean that most […]